The Gates: Star Frank Grillo Hears TV Show’s Cancelled

by Trevor Kimball, October 10, 2010

While a second season on ABC seems like a real long shot, ABC hasn’t officially cancelled The Gates (unlike say, My Generation). One of the show’s stars however has been told that there won’t be a second season.

Ratings expectations are lower in the summer months but the suburban supernatural series averaged only a 0.9 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and just 2.95 million total viewers. Though the ABC show has a devoted audience, there really just aren’t enough of them for a network series.

After weeks without news of The Gates’ status, Grillo recently tweeted, “I’m told from a friend at ABC that The Gates are closing. No season 2 Still unofficial but that’s the latest.”

After a big negative fan response, Haynes tweeted him, writing, “That caused an uproar haha. It is still not decided if #thegates is coming back or not. There is no official news as of now. Soon”

Grillo wrote back, “wow. Certainly did. Just passed on what we got yesterday. As I said. ‘Unofficial’ but as I see ABC’s ratings tank who knows.”

In any cast, it looks like two of the show’s executive producers have already moved on. Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo (who also co-created the series) have been hired by ABC, along with Greg Poirier, to develop a new summer series for the network. It looks like it’ll be a drama that revolves around a female spy.

What do you think? Is The Gates cancelled or will the series miraculously return for season two? If not, would you like to see the story continue in another form — books, comics, or something else?

This is a great show, its well written,great acting, and the direction is fantastic, each eposide leave’s you hanging till the next, almost like the serials from early television and movies, they would be crazy to cancel.

Oh for the love of God! I loved this show. I loved Happy Town. I have to say, someone should hire me as a yard stick to predict which shows will make it and which will not…. seems every time I get hooked into watching a show, especially on a major network like ABC, it’s the kiss of death for the show. I am so sick of this…. 50 percent of what I watch gets cancelled. I really liked this show and I am *#)# sick of shows getting cancelled in the middle of a story arc. I for one… Read more »

I am verfy disappointed that the gates might be cancelled I thought it was a great series and very different. I think the networks are always too fast to cancel a series and don’t give it a chance to catch on.

I was starting to enjoy The Gates. The characters were starting to work well together and the storyline had a number of interesting arcs to it. The supernatural aspect of it combined with the “normal” world of surburbia helped to make it interesting. ABC should give it another season to pick up the ratings. My own watching was via DVR which i think a number of busy people happen to do to allow them to see the programs they enjoy.
Thanks.

I’m so disgusted by the Always Be Cancelling network. They get rid of a phenomenal show like The Gates that is well written, perfectly done, and has a growing fan base, but they continue with season two hundred, ninety-five of the bachelor!?? How exactly does that make sense?! It would be better to get rid of that crappy brothers & sisters mess and replace it with The Gates as a Fall show! Desperate Housewives is actually a good lead-in for it. The thing to do is move this to a network that cares about investing in superb shows! However, it… Read more »

“Craig”, my husband and I love The Gates. Never missed it. We also watch Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy, but hate all the reality shows. We sure hope they don’t cancel The Gates. It was different and we were anxious to see what would happen now that they added a zombie into the mix. I think the Nielson Ratings should be revised. No one ever asked what we watch, so how can there be a true counting of who’s watching what?

Well all I can say is it is cancelled….that is it for me and ABC. I will NEVER watch another show, news cast or anything else that ABC is affiliated with. So sick of putting my time into ABC show just to have them cancelled just as they are getting good.
Sorry ABC but, you are pushing your fans to far!

you know what ABC.. im never watching your network again. you all dont know how to market your shows. The gates was a brilliant tv show. and now you have cancelled it. i hope the shut down ABC. it would be nice if they just get rid of the whole network all together. not that it matters to you but im never watching your network again.